Friday, October 9, 2015

House Dilemma

The situation: John Boehner has resigned from the United
States House of Representatives, thus giving up his job as Speaker of the
House. His closest ally in the house, Kevin McCarthy was groomed to take over
when Boehner left has now withdrawn his name as a replacement for Boehner in
the speaker position. After McCarthy’s withdrawal, Republican house members
were unable to agree on a consensus candidate. Rep. Peter King (R-NY), a huge
Boehner supporter stated that house members were crying over the situation. I
have heard reports that Democrats across the world are laughing at the inept
Republicans.

Maybe so and who cares. The Democrats needed a good laugh because
they do not recognize the laughable occurrences in their own party. They ignore
corruption amongst their own and fight harder to get their corrupt politicians
elected than a Republican will defend his or her self. When corrupt Republicans
are caught red handed, they get chastised and expelled by the Republican Party.
When Democrats are caught red handed, they get re-elected and praised by their
party. I say let these people laugh.

The Tea Party organizations began soon after Obama was first
elected to the presidency. He along with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi passed
Obama’s first budget that increased cash flow into Washington by 25%. At the
same time they raised taxes on individuals and corporations that stymied our
economy and in subsequent years have driven 90,000,000 people out of the
workforce.

For the next two elections the Taxed Enough Already (TEA)
Party groups organized to get people elected that supported their point of
view. Remember Trent Lott the predecessor
of John Boehner as Speaker of the House and a newly hired lobbyist. I will
never forget the communication from Lott to Boehner after the first Tea Party
representatives got into the House of Representatives. Trent Lott advised
Boehner to get to these people early and turn them around so the Republicans
could keep the status quo.

I say let the house Republicans cry. They have had us crying
for years. I want all these establishment politicians sent home to become rich
lawyers and authors of books that tell of the great deeds they accomplished as “the
people’s servants.” I want them crying all the way home.

Do not worry about John Boehner and his future. He will
retire from congress with about $220,000 per year government retirement income
and I predict before the next election he will become a lobbyist making twice
as much more than his retirement income. That is the corrupt system Boehner and
his friends have been fighting to preserve.

The errors John Boehner made were many. He was the worst
negotiator in the world. He usually announced six months ahead of time that he
was giving in on everything Obama wanted. He announced he was not willing to
fight for anything Republicans are supposed to believe in. Boehner and his
cohort in the Senate, Mitch McConnell felt the most important thing was to get
a majority in both houses of Congress so Republicans could be in charge. Well,
the electorate gave them that. In return, they gave us exactly what Harry Reid
and Nancy Pelosi gave us. I say send all these Washington elitists home crying.

For years all John Boehner was interested in representing was
big money donors to keep getting him re-elected. He lied to the public and told
a completely different story went he met with the National Chamber of Commerce.
Boehner wanted more immigration to give businesses cheaper labor at our expense.
He supported amnesty for all illegal immigrants. He was not on our team.

Boehner biggest mistake was not listening to his house membership.
He openly ridiculed “The Freedom Caucus” which consisted mostly of Tea Party
elected representatives. He removed them from committee chairmanships and did everything
he could to minimize their influence. Boehner and Kevin McCarthy lied to their
membership to get votes for bills they could not get honestly. Boehner was big
on “show votes” that did not have a chance to become law, but allowed house
members to go home and tell their constituents they tried. All legislation of
significance passed by Boehner required Democrat support. Basically he wrote off
one third of his own Republican house membership and this led to his current
situation.

The truth is the outcome of the rest of Obama’s tenure is
going to be the same as if Boehner had stayed. His leaving does not change the
power of the presidency. If the new speaker is not willing to listen to and
elicit support from all his Republican membership, that speaker will be a
failure also. You cannot take people’s voice away and expect to stay their
leader. We need a speaker that listens to his people and his constituents to
unite the Republican Party. We need a speaker that will make his case publicly
to the American people. We need a leader in the speaker position. We need
leadership.